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away, people would sometimes send for the prearhcr and ask him for whom the hell tolled, and the preacher would say to them that the bell tolled for everyone. "No man is an i l a n d entire to itself", he said, "every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away hy the sea, Europe is the lcss, a d well as if a promentory were; a s well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were; any man's death diminisheth me, because I am involved in mankind. .And, therefore, never s a d to know for whom the 1x11 tolls, it tolls for thec." Sometin~es when one is taken Irom among us who was particularly identified with the progress and growth, as has been related here today, we feel that passing more than ordinarily, and I frankly [eel my limitations in trying to interpret here to you the meaning of this passing. It has liern said that history can be written in the live? of a few great m m . I think you will agree that if we are to tell the story of Lehi Jones' life, we would hc writing a terribly large part of the history of Iron County and outside the county too. Brother Jones has heen closely identitied with the program of the community and with the development of ihrse institutions that have been referred to: with the different modes of transportatiun, with banking and with education, and puhlic utilities; with things public, civic, political, and religous his name would appear on nearly every page if you compiled a history of Iruu County. Now Brother Jones was a product of 11b time. H e reflectd some of the characteri~ticrof that time that has made it significant ill uur his~ o r y . The Mormons came out here to the Great B a i n to literally huild the Kingdom of God. They felt they had a mission to fulfill, and evmything was dominated hy that. At least three things made the Mormon. strong - they had a sense of mission; strong spiritual incentive; a group conscience, which enahled them to work together; and a will and a n aptitude for working tog-ether for the good of the cornrnu~~ity. Nvw, Brother Jones grew up in that environment. He alxorhrd those qualities, and he has lived nearly a century to project them into our generation. The church and tllr state owe a lot to men and women like him who have brought something of the vitality of the past into our present. Communities are much like individuals. They h a w character; and a quality, as well as a quantity. However, two communities of the same size are not necessarily like communities. T h a t rommunity which has in it men of virion, and men and women who are willing to labor cooperatively together are fortunate, and will make progress over another community. And, I should add, l~lessed ir that community which has something of the quality of those men who have a spiritnality ahout them t h a ~ kceps the conrn~unityfrom sinking to a materialistic
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away, people would sometimes send for the prearhcr and ask him for whom the hell tolled, and the preacher would say to them that the bell tolled for everyone. "No man is an i l a n d entire to itself", he said, "every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away hy the sea, Europe is the lcss, a d well as if a promentory were; a s well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were; any man's death diminisheth me, because I am involved in mankind. .And, therefore, never s a d to know for whom the 1x11 tolls, it tolls for thec." Sometin~es when one is taken Irom among us who was particularly identified with the progress and growth, as has been related here today, we feel that passing more than ordinarily, and I frankly [eel my limitations in trying to interpret here to you the meaning of this passing. It has liern said that history can be written in the live? of a few great m m . I think you will agree that if we are to tell the story of Lehi Jones' life, we would hc writing a terribly large part of the history of Iron County and outside the county too. Brother Jones has heen closely identitied with the program of the community and with the development of ihrse institutions that have been referred to: with the different modes of transportatiun, with banking and with education, and puhlic utilities; with things public, civic, political, and religous his name would appear on nearly every page if you compiled a history of Iruu County. Now Brother Jones was a product of 11b time. H e reflectd some of the characteri~ticrof that time that has made it significant ill uur his~ o r y . The Mormons came out here to the Great B a i n to literally huild the Kingdom of God. They felt they had a mission to fulfill, and evmything was dominated hy that. At least three things made the Mormon. strong - they had a sense of mission; strong spiritual incentive; a group conscience, which enahled them to work together; and a will and a n aptitude for working tog-ether for the good of the cornrnu~~ity. Nvw, Brother Jones grew up in that environment. He alxorhrd those qualities, and he has lived nearly a century to project them into our generation. The church and tllr state owe a lot to men and women like him who have brought something of the vitality of the past into our present. Communities are much like individuals. They h a w character; and a quality, as well as a quantity. However, two communities of the same size are not necessarily like communities. T h a t rommunity which has in it men of virion, and men and women who are willing to labor cooperatively together are fortunate, and will make progress over another community. And, I should add, l~lessed ir that community which has something of the quality of those men who have a spiritnality ahout them t h a ~ kceps the conrn~unityfrom sinking to a materialistic
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